You say you could care less. Why do you care?
Those who care at all could care less. Those who don't care can NOT care less. Here's a diagram to illustrate:
LOL
Posted on 02/28/2013 8:40:02 AM PST by Shout Bits
no... i only asked (not so)humblegunner because he decided i was either a drooling idiot or a child for purposely breaking grammar rules in some instances... so i wondered why he did not capitalize his own name--which breaks a grammar rule... i actually do not capitalize my real name... i stopped back in 1985... i liked my signature much more with the lower case letters in both my first name and last name...
I hate “loose” instead of “lose” and “discrete” instead of “discreet”. Ack.
Someone who conforms to arbitrary grammar rules is a rebel?
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will no longer put.
dec·i·mate
Verb
Kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage of.
Drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something): “plant viruses that can decimate yields”.
What is the improper use of the word “myself”?
I imagine I’m guilty since I don’t know what it is.
I receive a piece Spam every other day titled “Your Approved”. even if it is a legit business, who do they think they’d attract? (Or perhaps it is intentional?)
I clicked on your name, and it says that account has been banned or suspended. What’s up with that?
Sorry for getting back to you so late. “Cray-cray” is a new slang term used by people-—well, morons, mostly-— instead of “crazy.”
It’s unbearably stupid, IMO.
While that has become the accepted definition, the word originated from the Roman Legion’s occasional habit of killing every tenth man of a disobedient or otherwise displeasing unit. It did wonders for discipline, I hear.
Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellow men bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.
This man [referred to in above in the introduction] had offered me inanity. I had almost seized it. If I told you that this little book would provide you with general insight into the knowledge of a discipline, would you read on? If so, then you had better read on, for you are in danger. People all around you are offering inanity, and you are ready to seize it, like any well-behaved American consumer dutifully swallowing the best advertised pill. You are, in a certain sense, unconscious.
Language is the medium in which we are conscious. The speechless beasts are aware, but they are not conscious. To be conscious is to "know with" something, and a language of some sort is the device with which we know. More precisely, it is the device with which we can know. We don't have to. We can, if we please, speak of general insight into the knowledge of a discipline and forgo knowing.
Consciousness has degrees. We can be wide awake or sound asleep. We can be anesthetized. He is not fully conscious who can speak lightly of such things as basic appreciations and general insights into the knowledge of a discipline. He wanders in the twilight sleep of knowing where insubstantial words, hazy and disembodied, have fled utterly from things and ideas. His is an attractive world, dreamy and undemanding, a Lotus-land of dozing addicts. They blow a little smoke our way. It smells good. Suddenly and happily we realize that our creative capacities and self-understanding yearn after basic appreciations and general insights. We nod, we drowse, we fall asleep.
I am trying to stay awake.
ha!
Alas, the seeming perils of an open board.
Somebody jumps in on a comment someone made to another and then the originating poster takes offense with that action and admonishes them.
It speaks volumes about the original poster.
I could care less about to whom it was that you made your original comment to. Your comment wasn't private and anybody can comment on a post you make. Perhaps you should stop posting so that it doesn't ever cause you angst again.
Just a thought.
I read some of the history of the word. Apparently the unit was divided into groups of ten, and the men in each group drew lots. The one who drew the unlucky lot was beaten to death by the other nine.
oh boy.. i am asking myself how in the world did i offend you again? my intent was simply to tell you why i asked humblegunner why he didn't capitalize his name... honestly, i meant absolutely no ill-will toward you... i thought i was simply explaining the origin of my question... so far i have not taken offense to any poster who has posted to me on this thread... especially not humblegunner... i don't know why my reply to you rubbed you the way it did... i really don't get it... again, i am sorry that i said something that you find so disagreeable... that was not my intent, at all...
this is an open board... and i love that! anyone should feel free to comment on anything i say... i welcome it... what exactly did i say that made you think i thought you had no right to comment on my reply? on my own, i just can't see it...
again, i am sorry... i hope you will accept another apology from me...
the alphabet may be on of the top 2 human inventions EVAH
After reading this thread it appears some people are more thin skinned than Obama. You’ve explained yourself very well more than once and the skin of some appears to get thinner by the post count. Just wow.
You may know this one. Sir Winston Churchill once said--and I am paraphrasing the first part--"People say that one should not end a sentence with a preposition and that is something up with which I shall not put."
You say you could care less. Why do you care?
Those who care at all could care less. Those who don't care can NOT care less. Here's a diagram to illustrate:
LOL
Now my greatest fear is..."Oh my God, I'm a bureaucrat just like the EEOC chair and my writing shows it!"
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